Execute PHPUnit in the root folder of your doctrine-common clone.
phpunit
The Lock support in Doctrine 2 is tested using Gearman, which allows to run concurrent tasks in parallel. Install Gearman with PHP as follows:
You can then go into tests/ and start up two workers:
php Doctrine/Tests/ORM/Functional/Locking/LockAgentWorker.php
Then run the locking test-suite:
phpunit --configuration <myconfig.xml> Doctrine/Tests/ORM/Functional/Locking/GearmanLockTest.php
This can run considerable time, because it is using sleep() to test for the timing ranges of locks.